The Kilns

The Kilns, homed to CS Lewis, is now owned by CS Lewis Foundation, California.




















en route to the house...











One of old collection on the table in his common room (a kind of living room where Oxford scholars met) "Oxford University Calendar 1952"

CS Lewis Reserve - "The Chronicles of Narnia"

CS Lewis Reserve, a beautiful nature reserve 2 min walk from his house.

"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

This movie perhaps has the longest title of movies I've ever seen.

I did enjoy it though, not least those beautiful scenes and interesting ways of presenting pictures.

[funny, i think!]
"I hate the yankee nation and everything they do." /a song played in the middle of the movie

It's also remarkably the first movie I've seen in the UK! So, I'm pretty "proud" of myself for managing to sneak in this free review. It did give a good break of the massive pile of homework I've got these days.

It took me over two months to make that happen, thankfully Brad Pitt didn't disappointment at all - though I did think the Coward looks cuter. haha

I must admit I do miss my weekly 120 Thai baht (less than GBP2) for two cinema tickets at home (thanks to the promotion buy 1 get 1 free of my credit card). Well, it won't be too long until I go back home anyway.

Hope it won't be too long until I make my way to a cinema again.

New software every day

Thought we've been very sarcastic, as we've been saying "We study a new software every day". Now it's Week 9 of 12, that's still held true - what a student life.

Funny thing for today was we even had to look at MatLab! Being a media technology, gotta see how image compression works 'behind the scene'. Good luck to us.

"Anything beyond failure...

... is a bonus!"

That's what I've been chanting for the week. Can't believe how much we got to finish and worse how difficult to be productive, everything takes forever to complete.

SolidWorks lecture today

Just a bit of an animation exercise during the lecture today, exploded view of your parts.

Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai 2007 - Final

Federer 6-2 6-3 6-2 Ferrer
Match played on Sun 18 Nov 07 in Shanghai, China

Thanks to ATP for being on YouTube, here's linked to the original page www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Es3ax5JKU

Art history timeline

Another commercial break off school projects... today 'we' present Art History Timeline - Pajaree reports from her student room for her own blog (yeah, how convenient!)

I do like art history and am very much interested in the subject, would like to write an article about it, hopefully some day soon...

Aside from a class we had years ago which I don't remember much by now - a bit of reminder here to myself.

Image: Visitors on a miles-long queue for a free entrance to the Louvre, top of the Eiffel Tower at the back. (Sorry it was such a boring cloudy day!) /May 2002

Here it goes the Timeline:

• 1886 - 1910: Post-Impressionism
• Late 19th century: Neoimpressionism or Pointillism
• Late 19th century: Symbolist Movement
• 1874 - 1886: Impressionism
• Mid-19th century: Realism
• Late 18th and 19th century: Romanticism
  
• England, France, Germany, United States
• Barbizon School - group of French painters, from about 1830 to 1870
• Neoclassical Art - art produced in Europe and North America from about 1750 through the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman forms.
• Nazarenes - young German artists who formed a brotherhood in Rome in 1810 to restore Christian art to its medieval purity.
• Pre-Raphaelites - English brotherhood formed in 1848 to protest the formula-driven art of the Royal Academy
• 18th-century: Rococo Style
• Baroque
• Early Baroque (c.1590-c.1625)
• High Baroque (c.1625-c.1660)
• Late Baroque (c.1660-c.1725)
• 15th to the mid-17th century (elsewhere in Europe): The Italian Renaissance - In Italy the Renaissance emerged in the 14th century and reached its height in the 15th and 16th century.
  
• The Early Italian Renaissance
• The High Renaissance
• Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
• Northern European Renaissance Painting - the northern countries, such as Germany, the Lowlands (Flanders and the Netherlands), England, France, and Spain
• 12th-16th centuries: Gothic style - (The International Gothic style emerged by the end of the 14th century)
• 11th-12th centuries: Romanesque period
• 5th century A.D - the 15th century Medieval Art (or Art of the Middle Ages)
• From the early 3rd century Early Christian Art - Biblical figures on catacomb walls in Rome
  

Source: normajones.com

Thammasat friends

Evidently I do miss home, found an image of myself with a few close friends taken November 2005 - a stop-over at Bangkok from Chiang Mai en route for work in Cambodia.

Deadlines

Day time is short, same as short time to meet all courseworks deadlines - scary period of student life.

I try not to panic, focusing on what I can do for the moment - hope it'll be all done just fine. Wish me luck!

Winter days

Yeah, been a while since my last entry. Got a bit overwhelmed with so much to do, despite I do enjoy most of the stuff.

Being back on the blog, it's been depressive short days - the sun set at 4pm, how nice! Ggrrrrr...

I realise I don't mind UK winter days that much, as long as it doesn't rain too badly - only wish day time is longer. Can't wait for Spring.

Things to eat... yet again

Yes, and now I continue my nutrition matters... and there you go my typical lunch, well guess you don't know it's a pizza!

Today...

... it felt like a Thai day, my Sunday meals had been very Thai - lunched chicken red curry and dined broccoli stir fried.

Yes, there're also mushrooms, green beans, tomatos and the ultimate ingredient - chillis.

Bonfire

This was followed the firework display. I had no ideas why we should be watching this flame, perhaps you did! Alright then, later the morning my friend advised it was a part of 'Remembering the 5th November,' their Guy Fawkes day. More info www.bonefire.org

Oxford fireworks

Displayed at South Park, today 6.30pm.

My YouTube page

Yes, the URL is www.youtube.com/itropical - its colours does "look and feel" like my www.tropicaldiary.com now :)

"What is real?"

2 Nov 07, 3pm: Tom Shannon of Vicon presented their work at a guest lecture session titled "What is real?" at Brookes Wheatley Campus. Tom who is also currently doing a Ph.D. at Brookes was the company founder. He showed us all the cool motion capture they do for film industry, i.e., Titanic, Gladiator, etc. Aside from presenting what they've done, he also mentioned how they see this developed in the future that is producing a system that can capture motion without having to attached devices on actors/actresses.

Motion capture: Their work seemed orginally for medical purposes; for example, they captured how a boy walked in a not-normal way so that physicians provided effective surgery to help on his moves.

How they capture: Having devices on actors/actress, cameras capture movements then giving them their outfits and background.

Good news: We do have the facilities to do this in our studio provided by the company, of course. Who knows I may know how to 'master' that by the time I finish my MSc!

Vicon is the new name for the combined businesses of Vicon Motion Systems and Peak Performance Inc. Vicon is part of OMG plc, a public company trading on the London Stock Exchange.